"The school district has a right to expect that something is happening, that their children are not running free all day." The school districts just want some evidence that students are actually being educated," he said. "The law doesn't say they can't teach their children x, y and z. He said the court cases would give the Religious Freedom Protection Act a bad name.
"I'd be surprised if the court agrees," said Larry Frankel, legislative director of the Pennsylvania ACLU.įrankel said if the Hankins and Newborns are successful in their claims of religious freedom, then Satanists could justify not teaching their children to read. At a talk at the SEARCH Fair on April 23, Attorney Dee Black of HSLDA predicted that one of these suits will eventually wind its way up to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court where the ruling could go either way.Īccording to Pennsylvania ACLU legislative director Larry Frankel, as quoted by reporter Ben Finley in the Bucks County Courier Times on May 5, these suits will fail: These suits are designed to prevent prosecution of these two HSLDA-member families who have decided not to comply with Pennsylvania's home education law. (Bucks Co.) claiming that PA's home education law (Act 169 of 1988) substantially burdens homeschoolers' religious beliefs. (Westmoreland Co.) and the Bristol Township S.D. This spring, Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) filed Religious Freedom Protection Act (RFPA) suits on behalf of the Newborn and Hankin families against the Franklin Regional S.D. Religious Freedom Suits Filed Against PA Home Ed Law by Howard Richman
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